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HAMPTON — For more than a year and a half, Hampton police officers ran an undercover cigarette business. Tens of thousands of dollars at a time would change hands inside a nondescript industrial warehouse off Aberdeen Road, as the department's "Blue Water Tobacco" company sold discounted cigarettes by the case. Though the operation was a sting staged to crack down on the lucrative black market in tobacco, Hampton police officers did not make a single arrest or file any criminal charges over the course of the 19-month investigation. Millions of dollars, however, flowed through Blue Water Tobacco's account, according to documents obtained by the Daily Press under...

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HAMPTON — For more than a year and a half, Hampton police officers ran an undercover cigarette business.Tens of thousands of dollars at a time would change hands inside a nondescript industrial warehouse off Aberdeen Road, as the department's "Blue...

HAMPTON — One day in the spring of 2010, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) approached the Hampton Police Division about working with him on undercover cigarette stings.
That agent, Clifford D. Posey, had...

HAMPTON — Hampton prosecutors are working to settle a forfeiture case involving $80,690 that was confiscated from a New Jersey truck driver on the Eastern Shore in January.
According to three separate sources with knowledge of the case, Hampton police...

WILLIAMSBURG — Soggy and muddy field conditions at Cooley Field on Friday night reduced the game between Bay Rivers District members Lafayette and New Kent to one element: which team had the more successful running game.
Going to the air only four times,...

Late last month, the federal government paid $210,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit by the widow of a patient who died June 10, 2001, of a drug overdose in the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center's psychiatry unit.
Hospital officials have...

It's a dilemma any quarterback would be happy to have.
William and Mary senior QB R.J. Archer completed 15 passes to seven players in Saturday's 24-3 victory against James Madison, just two of whom are listed as wide receivers. Seven of the catches,...

This is the type of Hampton team Peninsula District fans have grown used to seeing.
The Crabbers used a methodical offensive approach and a hard-hitting defense to overpower Norcom on Saturday and take a 28-0 win at Powhatan Field in the first round of...

A federal grand jury indicted former Newport News Republican Del. Phillip Hamilton Wednesday on charges of bribery and extortion for his efforts to secure a $40,000-a-year job at an Old Dominion University teacher-training center at the same time that...

It's another big score for the Mexican government, which has been tearing through its list of most-wanted drug lords in recent years. Still, no one expects drug trafficking or violence to decrease after the capture of Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a...

Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a former school teacher who became one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel, was captured early Friday by federal police as he tried to sneak out of a house wearing a baseball cap and...

Thirty-two people from the United States and Mexico are accused of running a multistate gold-for-cash scheme that laundered more than $100 million in U.S. profits for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, a complaint unsealed this week in federal court...

Their names he never knew, but their faces he could never forget. At the end of every month, men using aliases such as "Smelly Feet" and "Grandpa" casually slipped into the backseat of his unlicensed taxi, a rusting 1985 Chevette, to...

Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero. The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live...

The twin brothers from Chicago have been in witness protection for more than five years, providing federal authorities with details of how Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's notorious Sinaloa cartel network allegedly supplied them with thousands of...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 276 new members into the organization on Friday -- 100 more than were included in the 2012 invitees -- including a large number of minorities and women, such as Rosario Dawson, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh,...

Let's start with the story behind "We're the Millers," the new comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.
The writers of the very funny "Wedding Crashers," Bob Fisher and Steve Faber, came up with the idea and wrote the...

When Amer Ahmad abruptly resigned as city comptroller about three weeks ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel heaped praise on his hand-picked aide for helping him "reform government" in Chicago.
On Thursday, Ahmad was indicted in Ohio on federal...

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